Improving Medicare Financing: Are We Up to the Challenge?

Medicare is nearly always a target of federal budget-cutting efforts, but to keep it robust and properly financed, all options must be on the table-the most likely change being a modest increase in the payroll tax, a very small income tax increase, and other ideas such sin or energy taxes, or increa...

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Published inGenerations (San Francisco, Calif.) Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 164 - 171
Main Author Moon, Marilyn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco American Society on Aging 01.07.2015
Subjects
Baby boomers
Beneficiaries
Budgets
Costs
Decision Making
Federal Government
Financial Support
Funding
Health Care Costs
Health care policy
Health Care Services
Health Insurance
Income taxes
Key Challenges Facing Medicare’s Future
Medicare
Payroll taxes
Prescription drugs
Reform
Satisfaction
Social Programs
Tax increases
Tax reform
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Summary:Medicare is nearly always a target of federal budget-cutting efforts, but to keep it robust and properly financed, all options must be on the table-the most likely change being a modest increase in the payroll tax, a very small income tax increase, and other ideas such sin or energy taxes, or increasing Medicare premiums for Parts B and D.
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